Jessica Pegula and Karolina Muchova will play each other in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 8:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jessica Pegula who should win in 3 sets.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.61
Karolina Muchova -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Karolina Muchova
There is no head to head record between Jessica Pegula and Karolina Muchova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Jessica Pegula
26 - 10win/loss
6
3
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-10 | 16-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-18 | 45-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-21 | 28-15 | 11-4 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-19 | 29-12 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 16-7 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 6, Pegula will start her run in Cincinnati after she won the title in Toronto after beating 6-3 2-6 6-1 Anisimova in the final.
The American has a composed 26-10 win-loss record in 2024, 16-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Berlin where she overcame Anna Kalinskaya in the final 6-7(0) 6-4 7-6(3) and in Toronto where she beat Amanda Anisimova in the final 6-3 2-6 6-1.
Pegula won her last 5 matches.
Talking about her overall career, Jessica has an overall 420-240 record. She has a positive 238-122 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2020 and 2022. See her history.
Karolina Muchova
7 - 3win/loss
35
8
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-3 | 1-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-13 | 28-9 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-12 | 3-2 | 3-3 | 5-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-9 | 10-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-8 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 35, Karolina reached the 2nd round after defeating Dayana Yastremska 7-6(6) 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Yastremska (7-66 6-2). During the match Muchova scored 85 points vs Yastremska’s 71. Muchova was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Muchova bagged 6 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Karolina Muchova lost the serve 4 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Muchova put 53% of her first serves in, winning 68% (28/41) of the points behind her 1st serve and 39% (14/36) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Yastremska 6 times after converting 38% of her break points (6/16).
Karolina’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Palermo.
Muchova has a compiled 7-3 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2023. See her history
.Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Lulu SunSun (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-0 6-78 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Franco Emanuel EgeaEmanuel Egea – Bart StevensStevens (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin DhoeDhoe – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stephan GerritsenGerritsen – Ryan NijboerNijboer (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marvin MoellerMoeller – Mats HermansHermans (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Clement GeensGeens – Luca GelhardtGelhardt (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stephan FransenFransen – Marc GinerGiner (6-74 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Guy Den HeijerDen Heijer (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Magda LinetteLinette (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Magdalena FrechFrech (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Cori GauffGauff (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Marta KostyukKostyuk (2-0) – H2H and prediction